In today’s digital age, network availability and reliability are critical to businesses of every size and industry. A strong, secure infrastructure is the key to keeping customers happy, protecting your brand reputation and ensuring positive movement in terms of both revenue and profits. Achieving this type of maximum security, however, is becoming increasingly challenging in the face of escalating cyber-attacks.

Losing network access is no longer just a minor inconvenience for today’s businesses. Not only can it be incredibly costly from a financial standpoint, but it can also cause irreparable damage to a company’s reputation. And the cold, hard truth is, conventional methods for protection are no longer adequate, especially given the increase in frequency, intensity and size of cyber-attacks.

To achieve a secure infrastructure, IT leaders must address the four main challenges that are standing in their way. Those challenges are as follows.

Lack of Visibility

Maintaining a clear and accurate view of all devices and network assets across physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure is critical to maximum protection. After all, you can’t protect what you cannot see. The challenge lies in the reliance on traditional security systems to track and monitor the network. These antiquated solutions do not provide a complete view of all devices and assets, leaving some vulnerable to compromise.

To address this, IT leaders should leverage solutions that allow them to centralize and automate network discovery, enhance visibility and quickly identify attack points, anomalies, patterns and other suspicious activity.

Poor Vulnerability Detection

As challenging as it is to obtain a consolidated view of devices and network assets using conventional methods, spotting and quickly addressing vulnerabilities in those assets can be just as difficult.

Vulnerability scans can be helpful, but since they aren’t capable of continuously monitoring every single device, virtual machine and end point across complex infrastructures, nor can they pinpoint threats generated from configuration errors, non-compliant devices and outdated components, they simply aren’t sufficient enough to keep organizations secure.

Without comprehensive insight on vulnerabilities, networks are no match for the sophisticated cyber-attacks of today.

DNS-Based Attack Protection

Exploiting DNS has proven to be a highly effective way to disrupt and disable networks. Attackers utilize DNS pathways to ravage networks in a variety of ways. For instance, hackers often use DDos attacks to flood DNS servers with bogus requests, swap out legitimate URLS for fake ones that cause websites to appear to be down when they’re not, and create diversions that allow them to hide other types of attack.

The reason DNS has become the method of choice for so many cyber-criminals is because conventional infrastructure security methods are incapable of protecting DNS. To overcome this risk, IT leaders should seek out advanced solutions that are specifically designed and developed to comprehensively and automatically protect DNS from would-be attacks.

Lack of Integration within Security Ecosystem

Many companies employ the use of a large number of disparate security solutions from a variety of different vendors. This results in silos that are incapable of working together and sharing critical information, which results in a significant challenge to security teams who are responsible to take action amidst a dynamic and ever-evolving security landscape.

To complicate matters further, security teams in this situation also find themselves drowning in a sea of increasing threats with little to no clear direction on which threat to act upon first and why.

The solution is to create a network that is made up of systems, software and applications that can be fully integrated with one another with the goal of enhancing the performance of the entire cybersecurity ecosystem. This type of setup enables security teams to gain greater visibility and remediate swiftly to mitigate risk.

Conclusion

A failure to adequately protect your network and infrastructure can result in much more than just a little bit of downtime. A sophisticated and complex cyber-attack can cripple your network and place the reputation as well as the careers of everyone involved in jeopardy. To ensure maximum protection and network availability, organizations must close the gaps and address the vulnerabilities that other solutions create.

Integratable solutions which involve automation and data-driven intelligence can effectively improve visibility and enhance threat detection across even the most complex infrastructures, thwarting attacks and optimizing the performance of the entire security ecosystem.

Don’t get caught on the bad end of a cyber-threat. Provide your network and infrastructure with maximum protection. Launch your free product demo of Ayehu today to get started.

About the Author

Gabby Nizri, Co-Founder, CEO of Ayehu
With nearly 20 years’ experience in technology innovation, Gabby is the driving force behind Ayehu. His multidisciplinary background in product engineering, sales and professional services brings together key elements necessary to deliver the company’s IT process automation solution that has proven to be a force multiplier for businesses facing operational IT and cyber security challenges. Since co-founding the company, Gabby has advanced his thought leadership in IT automation and been dedicated to setting the company on a path to strong growth and validation. The Ayehu platform continues to earn accolades from customers, partners and industry experts including Gartner, Red Herring and Deloitte. Prior to founding Ayehu, Gabby held various operational and management positions at successful Israeli technology enterprises including Infogate Online Ltd, Webmaster and Walla Communications Ltd.

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